Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Education Policy

Claire Kerrane

236. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Education if she will allow any flexibility for rural schools when it comes to retaining a teacher in which student numbers have reduced given the continued complexities of Covid-19 in school communities and the impact of the loss of a teacher to a school, its students and the wider community; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48910/21]

Social Welfare Schemes

Claire Kerrane

264. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection if there is any flexibility in cases in which a person (details supplied) has the required number of PRSI contributions but not at the necessary class for the invalidity pension given that through no fault of the person's own, the person had paid a WOPS stamp during their early years at work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48941/21]

General Register Office

Claire Kerrane

265. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the current average waiting time for registering a birth and registering a death; and the number of applications awaiting processing for both. [48945/21]

Departmental Data

Claire Kerrane

266. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the current waiting time for the processing of child benefit; and the number of applications currently waiting to be processed. [48946/21]

Personal Public Service Numbers

Claire Kerrane

267. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the current waiting time for the processing of PPS numbers; and the number of applications currently waiting to be processed. [48947/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Claire Kerrane

268. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the offices under her Department that remain closed to the public due to Covid-19. [48948/21]

Civil Registration Service

Claire Kerrane

269. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason that the civil registration office in Dublin remains closed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48949/21]

Departmental Properties

Claire Kerrane

429. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health the status of a closed facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48950/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Claire Kerrane

79. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection if second year students that were in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment are eligible to apply for the back to education allowance considering many students will have lost their job as a result of the pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48547/21]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Claire Kerrane

457. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the assessable income limit for fuel allowance means test by 10% for a single person under 80, single person over 80, for a couple in circumstances in which the qualified adult is aged under 66 or a couple in which the qualified adult is aged 66 or over in tabular form. [48144/21]

Housing Schemes

Claire Kerrane

185. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will re-examine the amount available to applicants under the housing adaption grants given the increase in building materials in order that the amounts awarded better reflect the costs of such works for older people and persons with a disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47287/21]

Housing Schemes

Claire Kerrane

186. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a person cannot receive funding under the housing adaption grant twice in a four year period; if there is a four-year rule in which a person has to wait to apply for the grant for a second time as detailed in correspondence from a local authority (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47288/21]

Vacant Properties

Claire Kerrane

193. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has plans to introduce greater incentives for persons who buy a vacant or dilapidated property and seek to renovate it into a family home; the current financial supports that already exist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47350/21]

Social Welfare Benefits

Claire Kerrane

271. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection if consideration has been given to extending the working family payment to the self-employed; if any costings have been carried out to examine the matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47232/21]

Employment Schemes

Claire Kerrane

274. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons referred to Tús by county in 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [47297/21]

Departmental Schemes

Claire Kerrane

275. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection if she has examined the estimated drop-off numbers from the community employment and rural social schemes. [47298/21]

Rural Schemes

Claire Kerrane

276. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of allowing farm assist recipients access to participate in the rural social scheme; if the matter has been considered by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47299/21]

Employment Schemes

Claire Kerrane

277. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider allowing some participants to remain on Tús beyond one year in cases in which they have not progressed to employment or in cases in which they are benefitting from the scheme; if so, if this decision will be made on a discretionary basis at a local level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47300/21]

Employment Schemes

Claire Kerrane

278. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection if policies are in place for referrals to Tús to take into account the address of the person and that they are given a place on Tús in the county in which they reside rather than being referred to a scheme in a neighbouring county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47301/21]

Veterinary Services

Claire Kerrane

384. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he has taken to ensure that regulations will not be introduced here that will make it more difficult for farmers to obtain medical remedies by forcing them to seek prescriptions from vets which will cost the farmer more and impact on local co-ops that currently sell these items; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47315/21]